Make every command work would be very complicated.
Vim need to parse the command and understand it correctly, then escape
the special chars.
Let's give it back to user and cmd.exe. XD
On Feb 15, 11:06 am, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
> Ben Fritz wrote:
> > On Feb 14, 4:31 am, RoDo <royad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > echo system('echo a & echo b') fail
> > > should escape &
> > > echo system('echo a ^& echo b') pass
>
> > It looks like most of the use cases pass when using the () patch for
> > shellxquote, I like that option.
>
> > Since there are still some failures when using an unescaped & maybe we
> > should put a note in the help about how to escape it as well, probably
> > in :help :! and :help system() both.
>
> Using & in a command is unusual. Having the command work with spaces in
> the command name and argument name is much more important.
>
> But we would like to make every command work...
>
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